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[Stephen’s Web] List of tiny portable computers – it seems that people are looking for smaller and lighter computers – a far cry from the monster tower case and giant screen that we used to stay up late playing Doom II on, many years ago.

[Neil] I can appreciate the geeky beauty of thisR2D2 data projector, but I’m not looking to own one.

[43 folders] Punctuation mistakes everyone makes – great reading for punctuation nazis. Shows that computers of today still don’t make it automatic, or even easy, to do this correctly.

[kottke] the history of the ampersand.

Sometimes, even being literally stabbed in the back isn’t so bad.

A list of over 100 books that are considered classics. I haven’t read nearly enough of these to consider myself “well-read”, and sadly, a number of the books I’ve bought but not read are on this list.

If there weren’t so many bank branches with ramps leading up to them, would this have happened?

If you accidentally delete a partition on your hard drive, you can use TestDisk (free, open source) to try and get it back.

The lesson we can learn from today’s news is to always accept hot dogs.

Quiz that challenges you to name the elements of the periodic table – I didn’t do very well at this.